Charu Makhijani

Sr. Java/J2EE Developer

                      Mb: 314-406-7448

             Email: charumakhijani@gmail.com

 

Professional Experience:

 

Meticulous and resourceful professional holding Masters in Information Technology. Proven ability to analyze an organization's critical business requirements; identifying deficiencies and potential opportunities; and develop innovative solutions to improve processes and bottom-line. A proactive, open and honest communicator; stimulated by fresh challenges.

 

Ø      More than 7 yrs. of rich experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD),  Full Life Cycle development, maintenance, enhancement and deployment of client-server and ADM applications on industry standard Java/J2EE Application Servers with track record of delivering quality solutions in the Security, Finance, E-commerce and Retail industries.

Ø       Excellent understanding of methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Waterfall.

Ø      Expertise in Object Oriented Programming and development of n-tier component based enterprise Web Applications using Core Java (Multithreading, JVM, Garbage Collection, Collections, Generics, annotations), Java EE (Servlets, JSP, JDBC, JNDI, EJB, JPA), Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, JAX-WS) and XML.

Ø      Highly proficient in designing Enterprise applications with Java/Java EE design patterns/best practices/coding standards including IOC (Inversion of Control), MVC, Business Delegate, Service Locator, Session Façade, DTO, DAO, Front Controller, Factory and Singleton.

Ø      Extensive Experience working in Frameworks like Struts, Spring and O/R mapping Framework like Hibernate.

Ø      Hands-on experience in Deployments, Migration, Maintenance and Enhancements of Web/Enterprise/Middleware applications in WebSphere, WebLogic, Glassfish, Apache Tomcat and JBoss application/web servers hosted on Windows/UNIX environments.

Ø       Expertise in developing Ant/Maven/Shell scripts for building/deploying/automation of the enterprise applications, Running schedulers/Jobs, nightly builds.

Ø      Experienced with Unit Testing frameworks like JUnit with solid understanding of unit testing fundamentals and logging with Log4J for n-tier enterprise Web Applications.

Ø      Experience working with web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, GWT and XML.

Ø      Experience in Web service implementation.

Ø      Proficiency in using version control software tools like CVS, SVN, VSS and Rational Clear Case.

Ø      Specialized in RDBMS design using normalization techniques and expertise in using SQL and PL/SQL to write Stored Procedures, Functions, Packages and Triggers on databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access and DB2.

Ø      Extensive experience in business use case development, design (including use cases development, sequence, activity, class, component, package, deployment diagrams).

Ø      Expert in using defect tracking system like JIRA, ClearQuest and BugZilla.

Ø      Strong independent learning ability, easily adaptable to different development environments, collaborative, highly motivated and dedicated to delivering quality software.

Ø      Quick learner of business processes with excellent analytical, trouble shooting and problem solving skills.

Ø      Has extensive exposure on

o     SDLC processes

o     Designing

o     Effort estimation/Planning

o     Schedule/ Effort Optimization

o     Team Monitoring and Handling

o     Interpersonal, Presentation and Liaison Skill

o     Onshore/Offshore Model

o     Customer handling

Ø      Skilled at progressing from problem-statement to well-documented designs.  Designed architecture including requirements definition, object modeling design, tier structure development and user interface definition.

Ø      Recognized as a resourceful contributor and acknowledged with increased responsibilities.

Ø      Rich exposure of working in a cross-cultural environment.

Ø       Interfaced and collaborated with client in meeting technical challenges and finding solutions to ensure the expectations of client.

 

 

Technical Summary:

 

Languages/Technologies	Java/J2EE Centric Technologies viz. Core Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB’s and Web services
Framework	MVC Architecture, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, SOA, Basic GWT, Basic Cloud
APIs	Java Beans, Collections, Java Plug-in, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Spring Batch
Server Exposure	IBM WebSphere 5.x/6.x, Glassfish 4.x, Apache TOMCAT 6.0, WebLogic 8.x/9.x
IDE’s	ECLIPSE, MyEclipse, IBM RAD
Database	Oracle, MS Access, SQL Server, DB2
Web Application & Scripting	HTML, CSS, XML, Java Script, UNIX Shell Script
J2EE Design Patterns/Architectures	Business Delegate, Composite Entity, Data Access Object (DAO),Front Controller, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Service Locator, Session Facade, Singletons, Data Transfer Object
Analysis & Presentation Tools	MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel.
IDE’s	IIS, BEA WebLogic 8.1/9.1/10.1, Tomcat 3.3/5.0/6.0 and JBoss. 4.0
Operating Systems	Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7, UNIX
Version Control	Tortoise SVN, VSS, JIRA, Clearcase, CVS
Architecture and UML design tools	UML, Visio, Enterprise Architect
Defect Tracking Tools	JIRA, ClearQuest, HP QC and BugZilla
Build and log Tools	Build (ANT, MAVEN), Logging(log 4j)
Supporting Tools	Toad, PL/SQL Developer, UC4, Winscp, Putty, SSH Secure Shell
Development Methodologies	Agile, Waterfall

 

 

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

 

1.                Client: Enterprise (St. Louis,  MO, USA)                                                                                                  May, 14 to Present

Domain: Retail

POC Decommission (Role: Sr. Software Engineer)

 

POC is a desktop application for reporting and scheduling of Car Sales at enterprise, which keeps track of all the Car Sales data. POC Decommission project is decommissioning the desktop application and migrating it to the stable web platform with further enhancements like making the Car Sales data open for modifications and generating reports at the same time with the changes, maintaining the insurance data and syndicating the sales data to the third party vendors.

 

Responsibilities:

 

Ø       Involved in complete software development life cycle - Analysis, Development, Integration following agile methodology, an iterative development for the project.

Ø       Implemented the business rules for syndicating the sales data to various Car Sales sites with daily updates.

Ø       Implemented solution based on the design using Spring batch jobs and MVC for Car Sales syndication.

Ø       Implemented the online Car Sales reporting tool to facilitate the movement of Car Sales and supporting data.

Ø       For Car Insurance and other Desking activities created Spring batch jobs that will make consistency between the Sales data and Operational Data.

Ø       Implemented the functionality of ResourceAware Interface from Spring Batch 2.2.0 Beta version that was not present in earlier release (Current version for the project) for getting the name of resource from Item reader to the writer.

Ø       After decommissioning of old platform rigorously tested various day to day activities for Car Sales and scheduled jobs with continuous Integrations and deployments.

 

Environment:  Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSP, Servlets, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Struts, Hibernate, Web services, Oracle, Ant, Log4j, JUnit, Apache Tomcat, Clearcase.

 

 

 

 

2.                Client: StateStreet (Boston,  MA, USA)                                                                                                  Oct, 12 to Dec, 13

Domain: Banking, Securities

Risk Analytics Application (Role: Technical Lead/Sr. Project Engineer)

 

Risk Analytics’ platform automates the econometric models with a user interface, reporting environment, audit trails, and scheduling. It produces a measure of risk for simulated economic capital and analytic economic capital for different types of Risks like Market Risks, Enterprise Risk, Business Risk and Credit Risk etc.

 

Responsibilities:

Ø       Analyzing, designing and developing the system as per the requirements from client following agile methodology, an iterative development for the project and participating in code reviews.

Ø       Involved in Architectural Changes that involves changes in workflows and new functionalities.

Ø       Involved in building and leading the team of 5-6 people for the project.

Ø       Implemented many Core APIs for the system like File Transfer Utilities, Risk Audit Jobs, Risk Tracking Automation.

Ø       Designed and developed the workflows for various risk modules and their integration using IBM BPM.

Ø       Developed Action Form, Action classes for implementing business logic for Risk capturing, integration and reporting using Struts Framework.

Ø       Hibernate Frameworks is used in persistence layer for mapping an object-oriented domain model to a relational database i.e. DB2.

Ø       Suggested and created the eSF (Enterprise Security Framework), i.e. the StateStreet customized Cloud security tool(For authentication and authorization) in non-cloud application for the first time.

Ø       Developed the project using industry standard design patterns like Business Delegate Factory Pattern for better maintenance of code and re-usability.

Ø       Created Proof data report for migrating the project to CDT (Cloud Environment for StateStreet).

 

Environment:  Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, JSP, Servlets, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Web services, OWT (Customized GWT for State Street), Oracle, CDT (Cloud Development Toolkit) framework from StateStreet, IBM BPM, Maven, Log4j, JUnit, WebSphere Application Server, JIRA, Clearcase.

 

 

3.                Client: GSI (eBay) (KOP, PA, USA)                                                                                                                Jan, 11 to Sep, 12

Domain: E-commerce                 

POLO Store Launch Project (Role: Technical Lead/Lead Engineer)

 

Club Monaco (Stores from POLO) is the high-end clothing retailer chain owned by Polo Ralph Lauren. There online stores for United States and Canada launched in May 2012 in Spring Framework.

 

Responsibilities: 

Ø       Closely worked in the launching of 2 Club Monaco stores for US and Canada.

Ø       With opening of these 2 online stores sales for POLO including CM reported to be increased by 200K$ in next few months. After this success POLO decided to implement 2 more chains for CM in European market.

Ø       Involved in taking requirements from client and designing them with GSI Architecture Team.

Ø       Handled the team of 5-6 people at a time during the design and development phase of launch.

Ø       Developed various modules like – Account Management, Payment and Catalog Management using Spring Framework.

Ø       Created API for conversion of SQLs to Stored Procedures (as per GSI standards) to minimize the efforts.

Ø       Involved in creating the payment gateway for both sites using Spring workflow and utility classes using multi-threading and collection classes.

Ø       Wrote all the sprint documents, developer’s guide and execution guide.

Ø       Learnt the customized SRM (Store Reference Model) of GSI which is the core framework designed in the spring for their e-commerce applications. Also trained other team members on it.

Ø       After the store launch in May 2012, I was very much appreciated by the GSI and also from the Club Monaco business team for my contribution in the launch.

 

Environment: Core Java, J2EE JSP, Servlets, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JDBC, Collections, JUnit, Apache Struts, Spring, Hibernate, WebLogic Application Server 5.0, UML, Oracle 10g, Maven, SVN, ClearQuest.

 

 

4.                Client: DPSG (Plano, Texas, USA)                                                                                                                Aug, 09 to Dec, 10

Domain: Retail  

Keystone Project (Role: Sr. Software Developer)

 

The project basically re-implements existing interfaces and creates new interfaces for all the Custom Applications of DPSG built in Java, Oracle and UNIX. All these applications extract the sales and budget data from the SAP System and process it for the daily / monthly sales extract and Accounts Receivable/Payable invoices of DPSG.

 

Responsibilities: 

Ø       Involved in the requirement definition, impact analysis, Interface Implementation, design, coding and testing phase of this project.

Ø       Closely involved with client for covering all their business aspects.

Ø       Responsible for designing UML and creating Design Documents.

Ø       Worked with a variety of issues involving server connectivity, DB migration and user interface modifications.

Ø       Worked as the sole developer for the business logic, Business object-to-relational database conversion, and also the database modifications.

Ø       Involved in writing user defined exceptions with various specific scenarios to route them.

Ø       Implemented Connection Pooling for database Connection to maximize efficiency.

Ø       Solely maintained all the defects for the project during the Code Review and Unit testing using defect tracking system JIRA.

Ø       Also worked with the DBAs and UNIX Administrator to modify the database and Web Server configuration.

Ø       Involved in Sprint meetings and followed agile software development methodologies.

 

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, Java Script, JSP, Spring, Struts, Hibernate Frameworks, Oracle PL/SQL, XML, UNIX Shell Scripting, UML, Eclipse IDE, IBM Websphere, CVS, BugZilla, Agile.

 

 

5.                Client: DPSG (Plano, Texas, USA)                                                                                                                Jan, 09 to July, 09

Domain: Retail 

RC Project (Retail Chain allocation) (Role: Sr. Software Developer)

 

Application keeps tracking of all the retailers associated with DPS in more than 1, 00,000 locations and their bottlers distributing various brands. Application gives the retailers the various options to interact with their bottlers that work in a particular area. The application is a licensing footprint with various retailers of DPSG in North America. The application helps in easy and effective tracking of master data that comes from the SAP systems. Completely parameter/rule based system.

 

Responsibilities: 

Ø       Creation of Technical/Functional specifications based on the Requirement Elicitation from client.

Ø       The experience encompasses analysis, design, coding, development, testing, implementation and deployment.

Ø       Developed presentation components for admin console with adherence to the existing system.

Ø       Involved in developing and redesigning the modules to connect with the existing system.

Ø       Use Case reviews with Business Analysts, wrote design approach documents, development, support, status reporting with client on a weekly basis. Provided the Design Requirement for designing database Schema and various entities.

Ø       Extensively involved in developing the business logic to be implemented in the Beans using Home interface, Remote interface, Session bean, Entity bean, Deployment Descriptor, and Bean implementation classes.

Ø       Used Oracle’s SQL Developer tool for creating tables, views, indexes, triggers and sequences.

Ø       Participated in user and team interaction.

Ø       Worked with UNIX Administrator for getting digital certificate signed for this site.

 

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, EJB, Struts, JDBC, XML, Eclipse, Oracle, VSS, HP QC

 

 

6.                Client: DPSG (Plano, Texas, USA)                                                                                                                Jun, 07 to Jan, 09

Domain: Retail 

Extranet Application (Role: Software Developer)

 

Extranet is a web application portal for bottlers, Regional Sales Managers (RSMs) and Division Sales Manager (DSM). The applications keep the tracking of all the chains, bottlers and their products, all the marketing strategies, budget analysis and new customer or vendor participation activities, pricing analysis, cost analysis. Extranet is based on Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanism, whereby a single action of user authentication and authorization can permit a user to access all applications where he has access permission, without the need to enter multiple passwords that means user needs to login only once to get access to all these application.

 

 

Responsibilities:

Ø       Worked in the Development, Maintenance and Support related activities for this application.

Ø       Involved in collecting required data from the clients ensuring proper execution of the project.

Ø       Involved in tracking and fixing the assigned bugs and add enhanced functionality and new features throughout the system.

Ø       Developed JavaBeans to be used by JSP pages for presenting Web content.

Ø       Used Action Forms and DynaActionForms` to collect the user input.

Ø       Used Tiles framework to create templates and reusable components.

Ø       Used Validator framework to perform JSP form validation.

Ø       Developed Web-tier authentication consisting of HTTP basic authentication and form-based authentication.

Ø       Created the database roles, users, tables, views, procedures, packages, functions and triggers in Oracle using Toad.

Ø       Involved in Normalization of database.

Ø       Developed Session and Entity Beans to implement business functionality.

 

Environment: Core Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JDBC, XML, Java Mail, Struts, Eclipse, WebSphere, Oracle, UNIX Shell Scripting, VSS, HP QC

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ø       BE (Computer Science) – Rajasthan University, India

Ø       MBA (Information Technology) – Symbiosis University, India

 

 

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Ø       Received Leadership award while working with client StateStreet for handling project team from different locations (ODCs) in India.

Ø       Received Outstanding Performance reward in Nov, 2011 and in May 2012 from GSI e-commerce client after launch of Club Monaco sites for US and Canada that increased their sales with 200K$ in next 3 months.

Ø       Received Customer Appreciation Award for continuous breakthrough performance in Sep 2009, Nov 2010 from DPSG.

 

 

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS:

 

Ø       Has undergone comprehensive trainings in-

o Cloud Computing Methodologies

o Code Optimization and Defect Prevention Architecture

o Intershop with exposure to version Enfinity 6.4 and V11.0

o Light Weight Methodology.

o Quality Processes like- Software Matrices and Practice, OMS, CMMI, DPA. Also worked in upgrading the project to CMMI level 3 and 5.

Ø       (310-055) SCJP 5.0 Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0.

Ø       Qualified and completed Securities 101 Domain training and certification.